Westboro Idiots Lie About Protesting Whitney Houston's Funeral

[struggle4progress]

... The whiny, bigoted, inbred members of the Westboro Baptist Church are infamous for picketing military funerals to prove some point about pushing the boundaries of the First Amendment, because that's what their Jesus would want, or something. But today, they broke the Ninth Commandment when Margie Phelps, the daughter of church founder Fred Phelps, tweeted a photo purporting to show the church's protest in front of Whitney Houston's funeral in Newark. However, reporters for the Star-Ledger "confirmed no active protests were occurring in the place depicted by the photograph." ...

http://gothamist.com/2012/02/18/westboro_baptist_church_breaks_9th.php

[Angry Dragon]

1. god hates liars

these people are going to have their flesh burned from their bodies in the eternal flames of hell

[gopiscrap]

2. They did that to us in Tacoma, Washington also....

a couple of weeks ago two little boys were burned in a house fire by their father in what is a nationally high profile case (Susan Powell dissappearance) Westboro three days before the funeral said they would be coming to Washington to protest because God was punishing the state because the Governor would be sing the Marriage Equality Act two days after the funeral.

Because of this, the Pastoral Staff I work with at a United Methodist congregation in South Tacoma got to work and with in 48 hours we had 4,000+ people ready to stand up to these bigots. This pastoral staff probably put in about 60 hours on this in the three days leading up to the funeral.

Well they didn't show...but they did put the town on edge with worry and anger!

The bright side was that I had never seen the community rally so fast to protect and preserve the dignity of a solemn occassion, nor be so quick to stand up to bigots and answer the call to work for justice!

[The Straight Story]

8. In that case they negotiated a deal for air time instead of protesting

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/westboro_baptist_church_calls.html

TACOMA, Wash. — Westboro Baptist Church may not be coming for the Powell boys' service after all. A Tweet sent from leader Fred Phelps Jr's Twitter account says "Washington trip now cancelled."

The decision apparently came after Phelps was interviewed on the conservative radio broadcast "Bobby D Show."

"Just finished interview with @bobbydshow. Bobby D. Was a real gentleman. Washington trip now cancelled."

The notoriously anti-gay church had planned to picket today's funeral for Charlie and Braden Powell. The two boys, ages 7 and 5, were killed Sunday after their father, Josh Powell, blew up his Graham, Wash.-area house when they were dropped off for a supervised visit.

[tawadi]

3. Another link

http://www.observer.com/2012/02/westboro-baptist-didnt-protest-whitney-houstons-funeral-but-wanted-you-to-think-they-did/

[ProdigalJunkMail]

4. thou shalt not photoshop?

i guess lying is ok if you have photographic 'proof'...

sP

[Initech]

5. One thing we as Americans can agree on: everyone hates the Phelps family.

[undeterred]

6. The police were keeping everyone away who wasn't invited

and I doubt the Phelps family was invited.

[MineralMan]

7. Perhaps not giving the incestuous Phelps bunch any publicity

would be a good idea. If we don't spread their foul press releases about what they're "going to do" and skip the press releases when they decide not to do it, and not spread the news stories about their pathetic little demonstrations, they'll stop.

Why every word from the Westboro Baptist "Church" gets posted here on DU, I will never understand.

Let's just cut them off completely. What do you say?

[struggle4progress]

9. "Ignore WBC" is a really good idea because they're really about nothing except

"Let's see if we can make a bunch of people angry and get ourselves some publicity!"

[cbdo2007]

10. They don't attend the funeral.....and STILL get the publicity from it.

Sounds like they've hit the jackpot with that idea.